Psalms 81:12
10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
- KJV
- So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
- WEB
- So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
- ASV
- So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.
- DARBY
- So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.
- BLB
- And I sent them away in the stubbornness of their hearts, to walk by their own counsels.
- ÅB
- Så lot jeg dem fare i sitt hjertes hårdhet, for at de skulle vandre i sine egne onde råd.
- OTB
- Så lot jeg dem følge sitt harde hjerte,
Til å følge sine egne planer. - B1930
- Så lot jeg dem fare i sitt hjertes hårdhet, forat de skulde vandre i sine egne onde råd.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 7:24
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Read in contextRomans 1:24
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Read in contextIsaiah 30:1
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
Read in contextActs 7:42
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Read in context2 Thessalonians 2:9–11
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
Read in contextActs 14:16
Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Read in contextRomans 1:26–27
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Read in contextJeremiah 44:16–17
As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
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